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Rosa Parks
#3. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James McCauley, who was a carpenter; and Leona Edwards, a teacher. When Rosa Parks was two, she moved with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester, to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level. Their farm was just outside Montgomery, Alabama. And at the age of 11, she attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. For her secondary education, Rosa Parks when to a laboratory school established by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negros, but she was compelled to drop out to take care of her grandmother, and then her mother, when they both fell ill. After she married Raymond Parks, he encouraged her to finish school and get her high school diploma, which she did in 1933. She worked several jobs, but after she joined the NAACP in Montgomery, she was chose as a volunteer secretary to its president, Edgar Nixon. Rosa Parks became very involved in the African American civil rights movement and moved to Detroit, Michigan; with her mother, brother, and sister-in-law, and her husband. Sadly her husband died of throat cancer in 1977 and she became a widow. Yet she persevered, and co-founded both the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation and the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. Rosa Parks also published her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story, in 1992 and in 1995 she published her memoirs which were titled Quiet Strength. She died on October 4, 2005, at age 92, of natural causes. Rosa Parks may not have been the only person who advocated for rights at the time of the Civil Rights Movement, but her actions were a large step towards more civil rights for African Americans. Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks (r) on bus
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This is one account of Rosa Parks refusing to move from her seat from BBC and it was actually written in 1955 at the time of the event. BBC Rosa Parks article
This is one more account and, although it was written in 1995 and not 1955, it probably contains the most acurate information you could possibly find because it comes directly from Rosa Parks. Included on this website are a video interviews with Rosa Parks and several pictures of her at the time she committed her act of disobedience. Rosa Park's interview
#2. Rosa Parks Slideshow This was a brief slideshow on Rosa Parks background and her act of disobedience.
This was another slideshow that I made about Rosa Parks.
#11. After Rosa parks refused to move from her seat, two policemen were called to take her to jail. She had her fingerprints taken, but fortunately she didn't have to spend the night in a prison cell. As soon as the NAACP found out about what happened, they came and paid for her release. And what crime did she commit? Rosa Parks was found guilty of violating the segregation law and fined. Her trial was on a Monday, three days after her arrest, and she was found guilty. Of course, Rosa Parks, backed by the NAACP, went on to persue the case and sought a Supreme Court ruling. They found Rosa Parks not guilty and ruled that segregation on buses is unconstitutional. Rosa Parks risked her own safety when she violated this law and took a stand. She faced jail time if she had not received support and money to be released. Even facing these ominous threats, she did what was right and I doubt anyone could have done better.
Civil Rights Timeline contains vast information about the US Civil Rights Movement in the form of a timeline that stretches from the year 1948 to 2009, but each event referenced conects to a separate page.
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) This website contains information on the African American Civil Rights Movement that includes activists groups at this time, many events that occured that relate this this movement and other issues that were present at the this time in history.
Video of the African-American civil rights movement
In 1965 there was a boycott of New Orleans by the AFL. The AFL stands for American Football League which started in the 1960 and lasted until 1969. The AFL alowed black and whites to play on the same teams. Well after the 1964 season was over, the all- star game was supposed to be played in New Orleans. But after some hotels, businesses, and white cabdrivers refused to service some black players; the blacks and white players decided to boycott the city of New Orleans and end up geting the game moved to Houston. The laws that were being protested in this boycott were the Jim Crow Laws . The Jim Crow Laws alowed businesses and people to refuse there services to blacks. Some white people in the 1960s agreed with the Jim Crow Laws, because they had a rediculous idea that blacks were inferior to white people.
US Civil Rights Movement
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#3. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James McCauley, who was a carpenter; and Leona Edwards, a teacher. When Rosa Parks was two, she moved with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester, to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level. Their farm was just outside Montgomery, Alabama. And at the age of 11, she attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. For her secondary education, Rosa Parks when to a laboratory school established by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negros, but she was compelled to drop out to take care of her grandmother, and then her mother, when they both fell ill. After she married Raymond Parks, he encouraged her to finish school and get her high school diploma, which she did in 1933. She worked several jobs, but after she joined the NAACP in Montgomery, she was chose as a volunteer secretary to its president, Edgar Nixon. Rosa Parks became very involved in the African American civil rights movement and moved to Detroit, Michigan; with her mother, brother, and sister-in-law, and her husband. Sadly her husband died of throat cancer in 1977 and she became a widow. Yet she persevered, and co-founded both the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation and the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. Rosa Parks also published her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story, in 1992 and in 1995 she published her memoirs which were titled Quiet Strength. She died on October 4, 2005, at age 92, of natural causes.
Rosa Parks may not have been the only person who advocated for rights at the time of the Civil Rights Movement, but her actions were a large step towards more civil rights for African Americans. Rosa Parks
# 4.
#2. Rosa Parks Slideshow This was a brief slideshow on Rosa Parks background and her act of disobedience.
This was another slideshow that I made about Rosa Parks.
#11. After Rosa parks refused to move from her seat, two policemen were called to take her to jail. She had her fingerprints taken, but fortunately she didn't have to spend the night in a prison cell. As soon as the NAACP found out about what happened, they came and paid for her release. And what crime did she commit? Rosa Parks was found guilty of violating the segregation law and fined. Her trial was on a Monday, three days after her arrest, and she was found guilty. Of course, Rosa Parks, backed by the NAACP, went on to persue the case and sought a Supreme Court ruling. They found Rosa Parks not guilty and ruled that segregation on buses is unconstitutional. Rosa Parks risked her own safety when she violated this law and took a stand. She faced jail time if she had not received support and money to be released. Even facing these ominous threats, she did what was right and I doubt anyone could have done better.
Civil Rights Timeline contains vast information about the US Civil Rights Movement in the form of a timeline that stretches from the year 1948 to 2009, but each event referenced conects to a separate page.
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968) This website contains information on the African American Civil Rights Movement that includes activists groups at this time, many events that occured that relate this this movement and other issues that were present at the this time in history.
Video of the African-American civil rights movement
In 1965 there was a boycott of New Orleans by the AFL. The AFL stands for American Football League which started in the 1960 and lasted until 1969. The AFL alowed black and whites to play on the same teams. Well after the 1964 season was over, the all- star game was supposed to be played in New Orleans. But after some hotels, businesses, and white cabdrivers refused to service some black players; the blacks and white players decided to boycott the city of New Orleans and end up geting the game moved to Houston. The laws that were being protested in this boycott were the Jim Crow Laws . The Jim Crow Laws alowed businesses and people to refuse there services to blacks. Some white people in the 1960s agreed with the Jim Crow Laws, because they had a rediculous idea that blacks were inferior to white people.
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